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2025 was the worst year for hiring since 2020, December jobs report shows (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/december-jobs-report-unemployment-rate-rcna253115
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p79#a260109p79

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- R. Heinlein

US oil giant ExxonMobil tells Donald Trump Venezuela is ‘uninvestable’
https://www.ft.com/content/4c21c031-443e-4834-a7a6-3dd59672b54e

An interview with 10 Kenyan AI annotators shows Chinese companies hire data labelers via opaque middleman networks and WhatsApp groups to avoid accountability (Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/kenya-china-ai-workers/

The hidden Kenyan workers training China’s AI models
An unemployment crisis has created fertile ground for companies to step in with opaque systems built on WhatsApp groups, middlemen, and bargain-basement wages.

Exxon CEO calls Venezuela 'uninvestable' without 'significant changes' (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/01/09/trump-oil-executives-venezuela-exxon/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p131#a260109p131

For example, with “AI” hypers will tell you that you’ll be “unemployable” and “get left behind” while doomers say “it will kill us all”.
Imagine them saying this about hammers.
It’s self-evident why they do this: you can’t sustain hype based on objectively looking at a thing that’s just not all that useful—and anything that’s overwhelmingly actually useful doesn’t need hype to be sustained.

Cat was unimpressed by the Opening Ceremony. Me too.
#Olympics

U.S. payrolls rose 50,000 in December, less than expected; unemployment rate falls to 4.4% (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/09/jobs-report-december-2025.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p25#a260109p25

Playing an unamplified electric guitar is like strumming on a picnic table.
-- Dave Barry, "The Snake"

Second Georgia state House member accused of lying to collect pandemic unemployment (Jeff Amy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/georgia-karen-bennett-unemployment-charges-502823a2f27ba9f38c52c4bda83d4d97
http://www.memeorandum.com/260106/p58#a260106p58